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Market Meltdown and Bailout Videos

October 10, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Wow! This market is a mess. As a great follow up to his posts at CafeHayek on government's intervention in the housing market, Russell Roberts discusses the situation and bailout with reason.tv: Also... Here's the video from an Economics forum discussion at MIT (my Alma mater) on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, video Tagged With: CafeHayek, Economics, government intervention, housing bubble, Russell Roberts, Urban Economics

Russell Roberts on Government Intervention in Housing

September 23, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Russell Roberts of George Mason University, CafeHayek, and Econtalk wrote of series of Cafe Hayek posts on the various federal interventions in the housing market: Housing markets without the benefit of hindsight Fannie reaches its goals--sort of Zero Down! Fannie and Freddie's other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing Tagged With: CafeHayek, Economics, Fannie Mae, Fed, Freddie Mac, Free-market, government, government intervention, housing bubble, Intervention, Russell Roberts, subprime

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